fieldpiece

British  

/ ˈfiːldˌpiːs /

noun

1. a former name for field gun

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Example Sentences

It was a real gun, looked like a six-inch fieldpiece, but fired projectiles of mud by steam instead of powder.

From Project Gutenberg

So sudden and so impetuous was this movement, and so skilfully executed, that the brave but ill disciplined combatants, against whom it was directed, gave way before the solid phalanx of the enemy, leaving the long disputed fieldpiece surrounded by the Insurgents.

From Project Gutenberg

Fieldpiece Une pi�ce de campagne.

From Project Gutenberg

What a Lovely War too often becomes bogged down in its own dogged sincerity and finally becomes mired, like some promising but unwieldy fieldpiece, in the Marne's mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marion at once threw up a mound and planted the fieldpiece upon it in a position to rake the northern face of the parapet of the fort against which Lee was about to move.

From Project Gutenberg